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Timeline of food and nutrition in China

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| 1958 || Food || Policy || The People's Commune system starts being practiced in rural China. Under this system, peasants within a township are organized into a commune consisting of production brigades which were divided into teams. Land, livestock and other production materials are owned collectively, and production team members usually work together or in groups assigned by a leader. Peasants accumulate work points and are paid in food and perhaps small amounts of cash. This system seriously dampens their enthusiasm and the rural economy declines.<ref name="and nutritional status"/>
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| 1958–1961 || Food || Consumption || Per capita urban pork consumption falls to only 1.7 kilos during the {{w|Freat Great Leap Forward}} period.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1959–1961 || Nutrition || Crisis || The {{w|Great Chinese Famine}} breaks out as a direct consequence of the {{w|Great Leap Forward}} campaign. It is the largest famine in recorded human history, with a consensus at around 30 million deaths, though estimates range from 10 million to as high as 47 million.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smil |first1=Vaclav |title=China's great famine: 40 years later |doi=10.1136/bmj.319.7225.1619 |pmid=10600969 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/ |pmc=1127087}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=THE GREAT CHINESE FAMINE |url=https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/great-chinese-famine/ |website=alphahistory.com |accessdate=14 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=China's Great Famine: A mission to expose the truth |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/ajeats/2016/01/china-great-famine-mission-expose-truth-160106100552321.html |website=aljazeera.com |accessdate=14 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kai‐sing Kung |first1=James |last2=Yifu Lin |first2=Justin |title=The Causes of China’s Great Leap Famine, 1959–1961 |journal=Economic Development and Cultural Change |doi=10.1086/380584 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/380584?seq=1 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press}}</ref>
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